Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory?

2006-04-13 Thread R. Scott Perry
On NTFS systems, this is most likely app-related such as Explorerer where they have to deal with slogging through all the extra files, as noted by another poster. An App opening a specific file will see almost no degradation because the NTFS uses a tree structure to maintain fast access to

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory?

2006-04-13 Thread Rick Baranowski
] OT: Max number of files in directory? On NTFS systems, this is most likely app-related such as Explorerer where they have to deal with slogging through all the extra files, as noted by another poster. An App opening a specific file will see almost no degradation because the NTFS uses

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory?

2006-04-13 Thread Colbeck, Andrew
: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:15 PM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory? Does anyone know of either a hard or practical limit on the number of files that a directory may contain under Windows XP? -Dave Doherty Skywaves, Inc

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory?

2006-04-13 Thread Matt
d in Vista): http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2005/06/explosion-of-audit-records.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dave Doherty Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 2:15 PM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: [Declude.JunkMai

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory?

2006-04-12 Thread Mike Nice
I don't know what the limit is, but there is definitely degradation in performance after a few thousand files. On NTFS systems, this is most likely app-related such as Explorerer where they have to deal with slogging through all the extra files, as noted by another poster. An App opening

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory?

2006-04-12 Thread Andy Ognenoff
I don't know what the limit is, but there is definitely degradation in performance after a few thousand files. For what it's worth, I've found some of the tips for improving NTFS performance found in this article to be useful, especially disabling the Last Access Time if you don't need it.

[Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory?

2006-04-11 Thread Dave Doherty
Does anyone know of either a hard or practical limit on the number of files that a directory may contain under Windows XP? -Dave Doherty Skywaves, Inc. --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory?

2006-04-11 Thread Michael Graveen
At 04:14 PM 4/11/2006, you wrote: Does anyone know of either a hard or practical limit on the number of files that a directory may contain under Windows XP? -Dave Doherty Skywaves, Inc. What file system are you using? I don't think there is a file limit per directory in NTFS like there was

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory?

2006-04-11 Thread Darin Cox
: Max number of files in directory? At 04:14 PM 4/11/2006, you wrote: Does anyone know of either a hard or practical limit on the number of files that a directory may contain under Windows XP? -Dave Doherty Skywaves, Inc. What file system are you using? I don't think there is a file limit per

RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory?

2006-04-11 Thread Kevin Bilbee
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darin Cox Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 5:09 PM To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory? I don't know what the limit is, but there is definitely degradation in performance after a few thousand files

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory?

2006-04-11 Thread Dave Doherty
It's NTFS. Thanks for the referral. That's just what I needed. -d - Original Message - From: Michael Graveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory? At 04:14 PM 4

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory?

2006-04-11 Thread Dave Doherty
: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory? The degeradation comes from using explorer. We have an imaging application the gets upwards of 250,000 file in it. We has issues with explorer taking hours to display the files to manually archive them. We had to write a program to archive them

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory?

2006-04-11 Thread Darin Cox
. Darin. - Original Message - From: Kevin Bilbee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Declude.JunkMail@declude.com Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 8:42 PM Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] OT: Max number of files in directory? The degeradation comes from using explorer. We have an imaging application the gets